Making of Natural Palm Sugar – A Snapshot

...getting to know the tapper community...

...with a tapper, in a palm garden...

...tapper Pitchai on his work...

...setting the palai so that it gives palm juice (neera) or what we call pathaneer...

...the collected pathaneer is boiled, set in coconut shell, latter it becomes jaggary, it is called Karrupatti in Tamil - of course the final result of hard work  by women...

...at least there are three kinds of sugar produce we can make: palm jaggery, palm candy and palm sugar. Each one is produced through a unique process and comes out with different mineral properties. Here we see palm sugar...

...natural, organic and healthful palm sugar
for your kitchen in bigger granular form...

...large production of COMMUNE SUGAR ready for market.
Indeed a niche product...